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Article #72287Re: what are acceptable compromises?
From: Blair P. Houghton
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 16:06
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1992 16:06
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In article <c0HNgB8w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (From A to B) writes: >The GNU project started because people were fed up with having restrictions >placed on what they could do with the code they had. So now they release code >which STILL has restrictions on what you can do with it -- just DIFFERENT >restrictions. It's kind of like magnetism. Commercial licenses repelled you; the GPL sucks you in... --Blair "Two sides of the same (iron) coin..."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,c1e13a8fc31fc719 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-02-25 08:30:17 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!iWarp.intel.com|inews!hopi!bhoughto From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: what are acceptable compromises? Message-ID: <9334@inews.intel.com> Date: 25 Feb 92 16:06:02 GMT References: <1992Feb21.014011.17656@uunet.uu.net> <c0HNgB8w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: news@inews.intel.com Organization: Intel Corp, Chandler, AZ Lines: 12